Comment 3 for bug 1577958

I've read the forum discussion which devolved into devs attaching images of electric fields showing that curved traces are not necessary. That's a big call to make.

It is disappointing that the developers of the project are excluding a feature due to their "superior" EM knowledge. In the RF/microwave industry, no package will be taken seriously if it can't do curved traces. In fact even when using professional tools like Allegro we have always done the geometries in AWR/ADS and imported the GDSII.

If Kicad's goal is to remain in the hobbyist arena, then this decision is justified. If they really want to challenge Altium and Cadence then something will have to be done about this feature.

Appreciate all the effort the devs make, but this call sounds crazy to me.